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Change Number: 2024-1001
Effective Date: 10/01/2024

3-6. Global Exchange Service (GEX)

3-6. Global Exchange Service (GEX)

GEX is the DoD enterprise capability that provides secure messaging, mediation, and routing services along with system monitoring, data audit trails, and performance scalability across diverse communities of interest. Routing and transformation methods range from simple file transfers to web services communications; they are secure, reliable, and dynamic, reducing the cost and schedule to enable systems to be interoperable. GEX delivers mass volumes of EDI transactions with guaranteed delivery and end-to-end accountability, mitigating integration risk.